Jack Hamilton, author of Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.
Hamilton, assistant professor of media studies and American studies at the University of Virginia, will discuss the transatlantic interplay of popular music and racial thought during the 1960s, and explore how rock and roll music moved from an interracial form to being widely understood as a “white” one by the end of the decade.
Hamilton is the pop critic for Slate magazine, where he writes about music, sports and other areas of culture. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, NPR, ESPN, Transition and L.A. Review of Books.
Hamilton earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Colorado’s Boulder’s Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture.
The program is free and open to the public.
Bridgewater College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Founded in 1880, it was the state’s first private, coeducational college. Today, Bridgewater College is home to nearly 1,900 undergraduate students.
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